The Kindle Fire is stuck between e-ink minimalism and gleaming iPad decadence. That could either…
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We've already reported that a mere 1 GB of the Nook's 16 GB of storage can be used for content from outside the Barnes & Noble app store. Interestingly, it turns out that the Tablet uses the exact same 3.7 V, 4000 mAh battery as the Nook Color, but somehow manages to squeeze an extra 3.5 hours of use out of it.

It's been a year since Barnes & Noble's Nook Color first hit store shelves. But the…
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Elsewhere, the Nook's guts are pretty similar to the Fire's (and the Playbook before it). Its LG screen is almost identical, and the motherboard also. The only real difference is that Nook packs an extra 512 MB of RAM. If you're so inclinced to take yours apart, you'll find the whole thing's gummed up with a lot of adhesive, and a lot of components are soldered in place, too. Still, dropping it from a height might loosen them without breaking the thing, if you really must try. [iFixit]